+ Follow Independence Tag
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[Title] => US Ambassador MaryKay L. Carlson: ‘We are family’
[Summary] => The downpour outside was no match to the outpouring of solidarity inside the red-white-and-blue-festooned ballroom of the Shangri-La at The Fort, at a reception celebrating the 249th anniversary of US Independence.
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